Railway-tie and connection.



No. 804,072. PATENTED JULY 21, 1908. G. H. SHANE 0 R. E. FORBSMAN.

RAILWAY TIE AND CONNECTION. APPLIOATION FILED 01:0. 21. 1907.

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GEORGE H. SHANE AD ROBERT E. FORESMAN,V Ol" DEN VER, COLORADO.

RAILWAY-TIE AND CONNECTION,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 21, 1908.

Application filed December 21, 1907. Serial No. 407,534.

T all ywhom it may concern:

Be it known that. we, GEORGE H. SHANE and RoBERT E. FORESMAN, citizens of the United States, and residents of Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented a new and Improved Railway- Tie and Connections, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has reference to improvements in railway ties and connections, and

has in view the provision of a metal tie possessing strength without being unduly heavy and having the requisite amount of elasticity; together with means for assembling the rails with the tie in such a manner that the gage of the track is correctly arrived at in the assemblage of the parts, and will permanently remain.

Reference is to be -had to the accompanying drawings forn'iing a part of this specifica tion, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views` `Figure 1 is a cross-section through a railway track embodying our invention; Fig. 2 is a plan of the same; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary longitudinal section through the tie at the point of the rail connection; Fig. 4 is a section substantially on the line 4-el of Fig. 3, looking in the direction of the arrow; and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a fish-plate as used in connecting the two abutting" rail ends with our improved tie.

(')ur invention. includes a channeled metal tie 10, com )rising a base-plate provided with upward iy-proj ecting longitudinalflanges 11 arranged at opposite sides, preferably inset a slight distance from the margin of the base-plate, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 4.

The flanges 11 are of reduced height at the`- intermediate portion of the tie, as shown in Fig. 1, and are elevated at the points where the rails are to be connected. These elevated portions of the flanges are each connected by a pair of spaced upwardly-projecting cross-iianges 12, forming a pocket, over which, and extending some distance at each side, is seated a chair 13, made in two sections of like construction; the opposed faces of the sections being suitably shaped for receiving and embracing the flange and web of an ordinary railway rail 14. The sections of the chair are rabbeted on their under faces at their outer ends as indicated at .15, to provide shoulders 16, which abut against the.

cross-flanges 12 and thus positively prevent any longitudinal slipping of the chair on the tie, and consequent spreading of the rails.

'The longitudinal flanges 11 ofthe tie al the Opposite sides of the pocket are cut out asindicated at 17 in li ig. 2, to an extent equal to the depth of the shoulders 16, in order that the projecting portion on the under fare ol' the chair, resulting from the rabbeting, may extend over the top of these llanges.

The top faces of the chair sections have ribs 18 projecting upwardly from their edges, and the under faces ,thereof are provided with depending ianges 19, as shown in Fig. 1, for embracing the longitudinal flanges of the tie at o posite sides. Through these flanges pass bo ts or other equivalent devices 20, securely connecting the chair and tie together.

In Fig. 5 we have shown in side elevation, a fish-plate which we preferably use in connecting the abutting rail ends, the same embodying the usual angular plate 21 for bearin r against the rails webs, and having boltho es 22, the opposite endsof the plate being integral or otherwise rigid with railway chair sections 13', of the saine construction as the chair sections 13. These iish-plates are assembled with the ties in the same. manner as the chairs, the length of the fish-plates obviously determining the distance the ties are spaced apart,

By the especial construction of the tie, it is sufficiently iiexible to prevent the undue vibration and jarring of trains, yet strong enough to stand the severest strains to which it is subjected, and by the novel rail fastenings it is impossible for the rails to spread, cant or turn over, but will be held permanently spaced to the proper gage.

The' invention as shown and described while being the preferred manner of constructionof our improved railway tie and connection, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described our invention, we claiin as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The combination ofv a channeled railway tie, and a divided chair seated on the tie over the channel therein and Ahaving downwardly-projectingHanges embracingthe opposite sides of thetie', both portions of the chair being of like construction a rail seated lCO on the chair and engaged between the portions thereof7 and means passing through the flanges of the chair and the tie, connecti flanges of the tie at opposite sides, and means ing them together.

2. The combination of a railway tie, havy ing a transversely cut out portion providing shoulders, a chair made in two sections, each i having a shoulder adaptedto abut against .the shoulder of the tie and provided with depending flanges embracing the opposite sides of the tie, a rail seated within and embraced by the chair, and means passing through said flanges of the chair an( tie, connecting them together.

3. The combination of a railway tie, having upwardly-projecting longitudinal flanges at opposite sides and rovided with transverse upwardly-projecting flanges near each end, forming -in connection with the longitudinal flanges a pocket, a chair seated over the pocket having shoulders abutting against the transverse flanges, and provided with depending flanges at the outside of the longitudinal fianges of the tie, and means connecting the longitudinal iianges of the tie and the depending flanges of the pocket together.

4. The combination of a railway tie, having upwardly-projecting longitudinal flanges at o posite sides, and having means extending'from the inner faces of said anges near each end of the tie, providing shoulders spaced apart, a chair made in two sections,

each having a shoulder on its under face I adapted to abut against the shoulders near one end of the tire, and provided with depending anges embracing the longitudinal passing through the depending flanges of the chair and the longitudinal fianges ofthe tie, connecting the chair and tie together.

5. The combination of a railway tie, having longitudinal upwardly-projecting flanges i l l i l l arranged at opposite sides, shoulders spaced apart extending from the inner faces of the flanges near each end of the tie and forming pockets, and a sectional chair having shoulders on itsvunder face adapted'to abut against the first mentioned shoulders when the chair is seated on the tie over the pocket.

6. The combination of a railway tie, having longitudinal upwardly-projecting flanges and having spaced transverse flanges near each end, and a chair composed of two like sections, each being rabbeted on the under' face thereof to provide a shoulder, the shoulders being adapted to abut against the transverse flanges when the chair is seated on the tie. In testimony whereof wel have signed 'our names to this specication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. GEORGE H. SHANE; ROBERT E. FORESMAN. 'Witnesses l A. B. ULLERY,

)HARLES SPARKS. 

